Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll + EM Forster | The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/music/series/hailhailrocknroll+books/emforster
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Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll | Laura Bartonhttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/01/hail-hail-rock-n-roll-em-forster-beethoven-chuck-berry
When we are young and hoping to live as passionately as music we love; be it Beethoven or dubstep, it speaks for us when words fail<p>When we were around 12 years old, my friend Sally and I became strangely obsessed with EM Forster's novel A Room With a View. We would spend long afternoons in one another's houses discussing the burgeoning love between Lucy Honeychurch and George Emerson, and the dangers of finding oneself in Santa Croce with no Baedeker, not to mention the presiding usefulness of Mackintosh squares.</p><p>One of the chapters I loved most involved Miss Honeychurch, the novel's beautiful young heroine, playing the piano one wet afternoon in the Pension Bertolini in Florence, unaware she is being watched by clergyman Mr Beebe.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/01/hail-hail-rock-n-roll-em-forster-beethoven-chuck-berry">Continue reading...</a>Pop and rockEM ForsterClassical musicMusicChuck BerryLudwig van BeethovenCultureDubstepThu, 01 Jul 2010 22:30:31 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/01/hail-hail-rock-n-roll-em-forster-beethoven-chuck-berryPhotograph: GABPains of youth ... Chuck Berry back in the day. Photograph: GABPhotograph: GABPains of youth ... Chuck Berry back in the day. Photograph: GABLaura Barton2010-07-01T22:30:31Z